Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140101240

Funded Activity Summary

Hydroregulation – a missing piece of the climate change puzzle. There is a great need for process-explicit approaches to the puzzle of how organisms will respond to changes in temperature and rainfall. To achieve this for animals, behavioural buffering of both body temperature and water balance must be accounted for. Much is known about thermoregulation, but 'hydroregulation' stands out as a major missing piece of the climate change forecasting puzzle. This project will integrate new modelling methods and empirical approaches to understand the connections between thermoregulation, hydroregulation, activity and, ultimately, distribution and abundance. It will test the predictions against long-term activity observations of reptiles and invertebrates from the Australian arid zone.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 10-02-2014

End Date: 30-09-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $398,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Terrestrial Ecology | Comparative Physiology | Ecology | Ecological Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Sparseland, Permanent Grassland and Arid Zone Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) |

Other Keywords

Comparative Physiology | Ecological Physiology | Ecology | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Sparseland, Permanent Grassland and Arid Zone Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Terrestrial Ecology

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